Posted on 08/30/2005 5:25:03 PM PDT by va4me
Cities built below sea level, next to a great river and on the ocean are like those built on active faults -- human folly.
Thanks for the map....really puts it into perspective!!! SCAREY!
They were just talking with an LSU professor on CNN, he is an expert on hurricanes and their impact on the NO area. I caught him on Sunday say that he expected a 50/50 chance of total loss of NO.
Tonight he was talking about the need to build refugee camps to house a million people. I wonder how long before we see the military air-dropping meal packs and bottles of water into the area. Numerous reports out of the hotels about folks being stranded with no food/water/working toilets.
Is the lower right part of the map (darker shade) the flooded portion of the city?
That is not a current photograph, but rather a composite of old satellite images. The shade variation is due to the different times or cameras that took the photos. Pretty much the entire area you see is flooded.
I'm not strictly sure of the situation in NO, but hurricane science usually is not able to give enough advance notice of landfall locations for large scale evacuations. In other words, you usually would have to make the decision to evacuate before you really know whether or not it's necessary. A heavy decision with a large metropolis.
You mean like San Francisco?
amongst other obvious poor locations dictated by stubborn resistance to the inevitable
How would the Mississippi claim N.O. if the breach is on the lake side?
I suppose the real question is why there isn't a plan in place to plug the levee. It's not like this scenerio hasn't been tossed around for decades.
Jueneau would also qualify as residing in an avalanch path
plug it with what?
Plugging a levee in the aftermath of a hurricane isn't something that exists in a preconcieved plan form that can be plucked of a shelf. Didn't you watch the levee after levee fail in the '93 floods with little impact to the efforts of thousands?
Yes, I agree - or any other sort of plan to deal with a major hurricane strike on NO. A lot of work should have been done on how to handle it. Very unsettling that it wasn't.
>>>I asked this on another thread...how is it Bourbon Street is dry? And the rest of N.O. seems to be under water? Will this water now just rush and sink into Bourbon?>>>
That's the one place that needed a good washing. My biggest memory of New Orleans is the smell of urine.
The same people doing the looting are the ones that put the imbecilic rat mayor and air-head rat governor in office. I have been saying for years that VOTER COMPETENCY TESTING would solve most of our problems. Sadly it will not happen.
My opinion is that anybody who can get to the Mississippi River levee should get there and start walking north. Once they get to Gramercy it looks like they can drive out.
The levee was the only place of refuge during the 1927 flood.
This is not the same levee that broke - that's the lake levee - and I believe that the river is not high, in fact it's low. I just checked NOAA web site - if it's accurate, then it's safe to walk on top of the Mississippi Rive levee.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lix/html/rvs.shtml
I think you are right. I don't think the looters will ever see a picture on their new TV sets.
American Pompeii
If I owned a home in the Garden District, I would have stayed just for that reason, or I would have paid someone else to stay and guard my property, with guns.
There is a very little middle class in NO. Most people are dirt poor, lucky to make minimum wage, with no hope for a future. They resent the 'old money' whom they believe is responsible for selling drugs to the poor.
In such a place, looting would be expected. If you have property, you'd better be prepared to protect it.
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